Therefore, it was the origin of working together to produce Jumborg Ace & Giant in 1974 which was very successful, and followed by a film featuring Eiji’s Ultraman characters: The 6 Ultra Brothers vs. the Monster Army, released in Thailand as Hanuman Meets 7 Supermen.
[5] In 1996, Sands presented Tsuburaya Productions with a document claiming that he had ownership of the international rights to Ultraman, the Ultra Series before 1974, and Jumborg Ace.
These were all the properties licensed to Chaiyo Productions by Tsuburaya to direct The 6 Ultra Brothers vs. the Monster Army and Jumborg Ace & Giant.
[6] For in Thailand during this period, news was spread that Ultraman belonged to Thais because it was supposedly created by Sompote, who influenced Eiji with a photo he took of the large standing Buddha at the Sukhothai Historical Park.
Initially set to release films and television series under this name,[a] they were ordered by Thailand courts to cease and desist anything they were doing outside of the original licenses in April 2007.
[8] On November 20, 2017, a Los Angeles Federal Court ruled that Sands, nor his companies Chaiyo and UM Corporation, did not have ownership of the brand after a jury found that the 1976 document was not authentic.